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"The impression becomes deeper; not in consequence of being reinforced by fresh arguments, but merely by dint of having longer rested in the mind; and as they [doubts] increase in force, they creep on and extend themselves. At length they diffuse themselves over the whole of Religion, and possess...Work: A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianityhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19113
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19113"When we are suddenly awaked by any violent stimulus, the surprise totally disunites the trains of our sleeping ideas from these of our waking ones; but if we gradually awake, this does not happen; and we readily unravel the preceding trains of imagination."Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22881
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22881"As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations."Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22880
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22880"In like manner many of our ideas are originally excited in tribes."Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22877
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22877"In like manner with these sensitive sensual motions, or ideas of imagination, are associated many other trains or tribes of ideas, which by some writers of metaphysics have been classed under the terms of resemblance, causation, and contiguity; and will be more fully treated of hereafter."Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22876
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22876"In like manner the irritative ideas suggest to us many other trains or tribes of ideas that are associated with them."Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22874
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22874"When fibrous contractions succeed other fibrous contractions, the connection is termed 'association'; when fibrous contractions succeed sensorial motions, the connection is termed 'cassation'; when fibrous and sensorial motions reciprocally introduce each other in progressive trains or tribes, i...Work: Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22871
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22871"Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast."Work: The Marriage of Heaven and Hellhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20143
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20143"From that awful period, almost every expectation is forlorn: the heart is left unguarded: its great protector is no more: the vices therefore, which so long encompassed it in vain, obtain an easy victory: in crouds they pour into the defenceless avenues, and take possession of the soul: there is...Work: An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the Africanhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19103
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19103"I have always made it a rule to treat those voluntary visitors [that bolt into the mind of their own accord] with civility, taking care to examine, as well as I was able, if they were worth entertaining; and it is from them I have acquired almost all the knowledge that I have."Work: The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology. http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18438
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